State and Local Civil Rights Resources for New York

Information on advance directives, which provide documented assurance that an individual's choices will be honored if the individual becomes incapable of making treatment decisions.

Provides a full range of services (including free individual case advocacy, technical assistance, and training for parents, students and professionals about children's rights) for children and youth who are at greatest risk for school-based discrimination and/or academic failure (including children with disabilities, ethnic minorities, immigrants, homeless children, foster care children and those living in poverty).

This Disability & Business Technical Assistance Center (DBTAC) provides training, information and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and accessible information technology (IT) to people in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Information on federal statutes (i.e., the American with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act) as well as New York City and State human rights laws that serve to protect the civil rights of people with disabilities in New York City.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sponsors housing counseling agencies throughout the country that can provide advice on buying a home, renting, defaults, foreclosures, credit issues and reverse mortgages.

A list of helpful resources on advocacy and entitlement as well as independent living for the disability community in New York City.

Provides technical assistance and other services for New Yorkers in need of assistive technology.

Works to improve the quality of life for individuals with disabilities in New York State and to protect their rights by ensuring and advancing programmatic and fiscal accountability, providing case-specific and systemic investigative and advocacy services and offering impartial and informed advice and recommendations on disability issues.

Serves as an advocate and a resource for individuals of all ages with all types of disabilities and acts as New York's State protection and advocacy agency (P&A), part of a federally mandated program that provides individuals with disabilities and/or mental illness free assistance in making sure their rights to education, employment opportunities, public services and public accommodations are not violated.

Programs aimed at educating and informing viewers about the legal rights of individuals with disabilities.